THURSDAY MORNING,JULY.27, 1882 The Clerk of Petty Soosions will attend at Maffra on Monday next, for the pur poseo of issuing summonses for the Court of Petty Sessions to be hold there on Monday, the 7th August proximo. The rumour that was circulated during the absence of Mr. Goo. Davis in, Mol bourne, to the effoot that he did not intoend contesting the election for a seat as coun oillor in the Maffra Shire, had no founda tion whatever, as will be aeon by our advortising columns. That gentlemnn also advertises the times and places at which he will mooeet the ratopayors and place his views before them. It would be a great convenienpo to the electors, and save a amount of time, itf the othbr candi dates could, makoe arrangements to moot the ratopyors at the smeo time; as then the latter would have all the candidates' views before theon at once, and be better able to weigh the tmerits of each. Several members of our local Choral SoEioty have booen rohoareing most assidu ously the piec...

DR. SIMMS ON "WRINKLES AND THE PASSIONS."' -0 Dr. Simms lecture op " Wrinkles and the Passions," at the Temperance Hall, wa. largely attended, and proved very enjoyable. It is wonderful how.much a keeq observer eai flisd in a wrinikle" Dr. Siiimms said tlie Prinklds of one's face are the roads over 'which the ex periences of one's life has been run. They ' are mile-stones erected as we manufacture' clharicter. One vertical writkle on the brpw glenptes great self respect ani respect for God ; two be speak a love of fun, carelessness in speech, yelt discretion in action; three indicate patience and loig life; four are so thorough at.d scattered about in accomplishing .a poilnt, that they are totl failures usually,'witli rarq except tions; fivet are morose, yet 'always thorough, and mind their own buasiness; six are amiable, but mxtremely poncen trative and thorough. Oqole wrinkle in front of the' ear lying up amn! down signifies good memory, and that' the possessors are very aqrcastic...

ISHIRE OFFICERS.' TO TIm EDrTOR OF THE MAFRA.SOPEOTATOIr ', SSn,-As the question.ofapportioningo , thle shire offices' ands electing-oficers 1 ivillhbo considered at a special meeting": of, the Matl'ra Shiro Council on Monday, imxt, would you kindly, throiigh your columnns, allow mo to suggest what I think would be a very fair division: of the various oflices of. the shire. Ther, ainjority of the works are alrebadyi allotted anidl rranged for during theo next twelve months, so. that there will', he very little real engileering wanted,. and the Council could meet all'require- - mnnts by following the plan -of the, Avon and Bairnadaln shi~es, and ap point a competent supervisor of works i to carry out all the contracts, and lot him act as valuer and :collector of statistics, and appoint a secretary to act as rato-collecto;r and some bank. manager as treasurer, This would give all the outside hfisiness to- the, supervisor of works, and the booking portion to the secretary, excepting tw...

TRAORDINARY DOUBLE > . 'MURDER: The town of Nottingham was hprrri fed by. thq tidings of a shocking tragedy enacttd by a respqctably con pected yputh of only 19 ygars of age, aho in th 'course of a fqw hours, with hq nmost pol4 blqodedi deliberation .,nurdp??wl his father and a lad in the pfhic where !hg was employed: Accord ing to his pw'n confession, young Westby had: meditate the imurder of his father for a lpng time before he could mruster courage or find a suitable ppportunity to carry out his design. Thq only reason assigned for this atrocious crime seems to lihat been that the father, from timq to time, remonstrated with the spn regarding pome. objectionable higits and proceed ings. What these were are not speci fed, but wq are told that he was very much addictqd to the perusal of sensa tional literature. This course of Read ing harl evidently had a particularly hardening effect upon his charctpr, for he expresses no regret at hqtying taken the lives of those who bgre him ...

LES' TEMPS: We haveo at lnst had a.good. down pour of thu long-wvished for rain, which is most acceptable to the farming and grazing section of our community, who have sulfred so much from thei pro. tracted dry seasons Some timoe ago a publican on the other side, who was a candidato for a municipal election, gave the ratepayers an open house; however, when. the eventful day 'came round, and,' Mr., Landlord found that he was beautifully "out. of it,' ho began, without ceremony, to kick the poor ratepayers out through every aperture that was big enough to let a man pass through. You may imagine, Mr Editor,. that upon the occasion of his next contesting an election, he did not' try asuch an, oxpensive dodge., Mr. Kiss, I ami told, initends getting up a pigeon shooting match in Matfra, This move should receive the support of all local men, as this manly sport has not hecn hitherto entered inito with much spirit in this district, as many did not care to practice up to go a distance to co...

HURSDAY MORNING, AUG.10, 18?2 r is only on very special occasions hat we transgress the bounds of ournalitio etiquette, so far as to pub hely censure the act of another journal, ut on such occasions we feel it our )Oundon duty to do so. In last Thursday's issue of the "Gippoland elreury," a critique appeared on a onert got up by M~r. 0. Blanchard, in id of the Ladica' Benovolenit Asylum I Sale. lMuch trouble was gone to by ir. IBlanchard in the matter, and in his ooatdand disinterested work ho was armsly supported by several of the ending ladies of this town. Every hiog in short was done to render tho :oncert attractive, and imagine the ceolinlg of the ladies and gentlemen 'ho took part in hll performance, 1he0 in the following 'morning's iasso of tho "'lMercury" there appears a critiqlue on tho individual demerits of the plerformers, in which they are dealt with nas a! troupe of'professionals; indeed, the writer of the effusion had evidently .no idea in his mind beyond the' boards ...

00MMENTS ON EVENTS. " The birds whoso music fills the air, Do chirp and chatter heedlessly."' -Aone. Wihat a mudhole this faflra is in the winter to be sure; it's a pity that rain should be so essential to. its welfare, for really if graziers could be isanaged without it, things would bhe considerably more comfortable. It isa really pitiabloe siglit to see .tie towns folk ploughing their way through the nmud knee deep. .Stilts would ,bo a 'capital idea in ' winter; fanlcy the pleasures of going' to see a friend at night without having to take with you a clihange of your nother garments. 'Apropos of nether garments, I heard a rather good :story the other evening. A gentlomaa i notu a thousand miles from Sale' called to see, somes friends, and having ridden twenty mniles through the mud, hlad taken the. precaution to encase his slhnks in. a stout pair of leggings . Arrived .at, 'his friend's house, imagine his consternation at finding that an evening party was on; gladly would heo hav...

EUROPEAN TELECRAMS. (AGE.) LoNoce, August 7. Pr'sideit; Aithur has 'again in structed the United States Minister hi London to apply for the release of the Anierican citizens still. iinprisoned in Ireland as Fenian suspects. LordDu fflrin, the English ambassador at Constantinople, has aninounced to the conforonce that England swill accept the Italian proposal for the joint naval protection of the Sueo Canal. This decision has given great satin faction to the powers, and will tend to allay the irritation excited: by the occu pation of Suez by British troops.. Pending the termination of" the Ministerial crisis,' caused by the" defeat of M. do Freycinet on the question of tho Egyptian war vote, the French re presentativo at the conference hlas declined to intimate the decision of his Govcrnment with respect to the pro posal of Count Corti for the participa tion of all the powers in: the Suez Canal. ' The principal: Turkish - Pashas are urging upon the Sultan to, appoint Baker Pasha to t...

FRENCE DETECrIVE&amp; The French detectives (says a writer iqn "Alacmillan's . Magazine") pride themselves uponl kowsing tha 'where abouts of all those who pray uppn their fellow-menq and as a preof of this they seldom fail in' putting their, hand on boths the thievesqand whlat they h!ave stolen. eWith us a detective is merely. a poliegman who has changed iis blue uniforor for a not very. well ade. suit of plain clqthes. The Frencjt detec tives told me that they. were rarely em ployed to arrest ariyone, and geyer, or, as rarely as ppsildle, appear. bfore the, criminal. classe in their. true. character. They are, ereily the dogs who hunt 9ut andpoint where the game isto, be found;. but they never handle, the. guns. by. w.hich the birds are.shot. So muchn so is this case that even when the thieves or other criminals are. brought up, for trial, they. very" rarely, appearS as wit nesse, against them,' They. iidicate. where testimpny tdonvict thp 9flend ep, will be. found; and their....

Trade -Addresses. MiAURICE COLEMAN'S qIPPSLANI BREWYI1Y (LrA e es. llIvER's). MJAURICE COLEMAN, while return: 1 ilog thanks for the liberal patron ago hitherto accorded him, begs to inti imate to theo' pIublic in general that he has wqailed himself pf all the recent inmprove meonts in brewhing, adlhaving obtained the cervices of a skilled home broeior, and by uiiing only thei beat h iateriale the market can aford, he in a position to suSpply aln article unsurpassedin the district. Sale, 30th March,; 1881. T.HE IMAFFRA. SPECTATOR" SE W SP APE AND qENERAL ,Mpera5 North (ippsland. Toe Proprietor cf the ' Ma?lFra Spctator"' bIgs to notify to the inliabitauts. gf the district that hee is proiared tip recoiv orders for" nrININNq IN . ALL ITS BRANCHES. The Jobbing Plant is replete with all the Latest Improvemnents. POSTING -BILLS,. OF ALL 1IZES, On colored or white paqler, can bo had on the slprtest notice. BuSInESS oIEcs, ' CONCERT TICxJrr, CAneD, . P. MW IES)?, Cincu. Anq, BAND BILL,'. P...